Quotes about prayer
prayer commitment practice
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises. Jack Kornfield
prayer meals bed
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. Jack Dempsey
prayer mean thinking
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so! J. D. Salinger
prayer spirit sin
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. J. I. Packer
prayer vigor matter
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
prayer men expression
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.
prayer guarantees-that judging
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
prayer unique reality
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
prayer responsibility heart
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
prayer wife making-love
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
prayer children father
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
prayer simple meditation
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
prayer answers made
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
prayer war opportunity
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible. J. C. Watts
prayer people memorial
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. J. B. Priestley
prayer men enemy
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. J. C. Ryle
prayer church sin
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
prayer eye hands
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
prayer reading mean
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
prayer hands weapons
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
prayer reading use-of-time
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
prayer believe differences
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
prayer heart forgiving
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
prayer men may
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
prayer christianity true-christianity
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.
prayer reading sunday
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
prayer successful christ
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
prayer responsibility hands
If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.
prayer devil sin
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
prayer angel blessing
Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.
prayer children habit
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
prayer children love-you
Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.
prayer sin choke
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.